Every Horror Movie Easter Egg & Reference In Ti West's X
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Ti West's X.
Ti West's X is packed full of horror movie Easter eggs and slick references to slasher movies and the wider horror genre. First premiering on March 13th, 2022, at South By Southwest festival and released domestically on March 18th, 2022, Ti West's X has opened to rave reviews from the horror community. In particular, critics have cited X's desire to return to the classic slasher formula Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre birthed, as well as acting as a poignant homage to other genre forebears such as John Carpenter's Halloween and Alfred Sole's Alice, Sweet Alice.
X's writer, producer, director, and editor Ti West is no stranger to the horror genre, with the hands-on filmmaker amassing quite the roll call of credits. West has dabbled in more cut-and-paste horror flicks such as Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever and The Innkeepers, as well as creating more genre love letter-style films such as 2009's The House of the Devil. Yet the movie that perhaps best exemplifies West's all-encompassing approach to the horror genre to date is The Sacrament; a harrowing found footage flick based on the real-life events of the Jonestown Massacre of 1978.
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As a result, Ti West's X is jam-packed with horror movie Easter eggs and references in reverence to his beloved slasher genre. From overt scene reconstructions mirroring The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to more subtle nods to gonzo classics like Peter Jackson's Braindead, X certainly does not lack for deft horror genre references. Here's every horror movie Easter egg and reference in Ti West's X explained, including where each one appears in the movie.
Of all X's horror references, its The Texas Chain Saw
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